זוהר, ויחי י״דZohar, Vayechi 14

Section 14 of 86 in Vayechi — 9 segments

Segment 1א׳

וַיֹּאמֶר יוֹסֵף אֶל אָבִיו בָּנַי הֵם אֲשֶׁר נָתַן לִי אֱלֹהִים בָּזֶה, רִבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן תָּאנִי מֵהָכָא, (דברים ד׳:מ״ד) וְזֹאת הַתּוֹרָה אֲשֶׁר שָׂם משֶׁה לִפְנֵי בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, יֹאמַר יִשְׂרָאֵל לְתַתָּא, כַּד יִשְׂרָאֵל עֲלֵיהוֹן לְעֵילָא, בָּנַי אִינוּן, דְּיָהַב לִי קוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא אוֹרַיְיתָא, כַּמָּה יַתְהוֹן וְנִימוּסֵיהוֹן קְשִׁיטִין, בְּנִימוּסֵי אוֹרַיְיתָא (דאתיהיבת להון. תא חזי, כד יהון ישראל תחות גדפי שכינתא, אורייתא) דִלְהוֹן אִתְקְרִיאַת זֶה, הֲדָא הוּא דִכְתִיב, (שמות ט״ו:ב׳) זֶה אֵלִי וְאַנְוֵהוּ, וּבְכָל עִדָּן דְּלָא הֲוָה דָּוִד מְמַלֵּל תְּחוֹת גַּדְפֵי שְׁכִינְתָּא דָא מִלְּתָא, אֶלָּא אִתְנַבֵּי מַה דְּלֶיהוֵי, אִתְקָרֵינָא זֹאת.

AND JOSEPH SAID TO HIS FATHER: THEY ARE MY SONS, WHOM GOD HAS GIVEN ME IN THIS. R. Simeon taught from here: “And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel” (Deut. 4, 44). It speaks of Israel below, when Israel above are over them: They are my sons, for the Holy One, blessed be He, gave me the Torah; how upright are they and their precepts, in the precepts of the Torah which was given to them. Observe: when Israel are under the wings of the Shekinah, their Torah is called zeh, as it is written: “This is my God and I will glorify Him” (Ex. 15, 2). And whenever David did not speak this thing under the wings of the Shekinah, but prophesied what was to be, it is called zoth.

Segment 2ב׳

רַב נַחְמָן אָמַר מֵהָכָא, (תהילים כ״ז:ג׳) אִם תַּחֲנְה עָלַי מַחֲנְה לא יִירָא לִבִּי וְגו' בְּזֹאת אֲנִי בּוֹטֵחַ, זֹאת דָּא אוֹרַיְיתָא תְּהֵא לֵייתֵי מְשִׁיחָא, וּבְגִין דָּא, (שיר השירים ב׳:י״ב) וְקוֹל הַתּוֹר נִשְׁמַע בְּאַרְצֵנוּ. עַל מָה אִתְמַתְלַת אוֹרַיְיתָא, לְגוֹזָלָא. מַה גּוֹזָלָא קָלֵיהּ עָרֵב, אַף פִּתְגָמֵי אוֹרַיְיתָא קָלֵיהּ עָרֵב, וְדָא קָלָא יְהֵא לֵייתֵי מְשִׁיחָא, לְיוֹמָא דְּדִינָא.

Rab Nahman said: From here — “Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear, etc.; in this (bezoth) I am confident” (Ps. 27, 3). Zoth: this is the Torah, which shall be at the coming of the Messiah. And therefore, “and the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land” (S. S. 2, 12). To what is the Torah likened? To a young bird. As the young bird’s voice is sweet, so the words of the Torah — their voice is sweet. And this voice shall be at the coming of the Messiah, for the day of judgement.

Segment 3ג׳

תָּנָא, הַנִּצָּנִים נִרְאוּ בָאָרֶץ עֵת הַזָּמִיר הִגִּיעַ וְקוֹל הַתּוֹר נִשְׁמַע בְּאַרְצֵנוּ. הַנִּצָּנִים, דָּא אֲבָהָתָן דְּמֶרְכָּבָה, דְּמִן עַלְמָא יְקוּמוּן וְיִתְחֲזוּ.

It has been taught: “The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing is come, and the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land.” The flowers: these are our fathers, who are of the Chariot, who shall rise from the world and be seen.

Segment 4ד׳

עֵת הַזָּמִיר הִגִּיעַ, תּוּשְׁבַּחְתָּא דִּישַׁבְּחוּן לֵיוָאֵי, כַּד יְתוּבוּן לְפוּלְחָנֵיהוֹן כִּדְבְּקַדְמִיתָא. וְקוֹל הַתּוֹר, אֲשֶׁר נָתַן לִי אֱלֹהִים בָּזֶה, פִּתְגָמֵי דְּאוֹרַיְיתָא, דְּאִינוּן עֲרֵבִין כְּקָלָא דְּתוֹרָא, דָּא זֶ"ה זֹא"ת תּוֹר שָׁוִין.

“The time of singing is come”: the praise which the Levites shall sing when they return to their service as at the first. “And the voice of the turtle-dove” — “whom God has given me in this (bazeh)”: these are the words of the Torah, which are sweet as the voice of the turtle-dove. These — zeh, zoth, tor — are alike.

Segment 5ה׳

מַאי קָא מַיְירֵי. וְרָזָא דְמִלְּתָא, בְּעִדָּנָא דְּלָא תֶהֶוְיָין תְּחוֹת גַּדְפֵי שְׁכִינְתָּא, א' דִּלְזֹאת נָחִית, וְהוּא מִתְּחוֹת לְכֹלָּא, וּסְלִיקַת ה', דְּזֶה אֵלִי וְאַנְוֵהוּ, מִדְּחָרַב בֵּיתָא, דְּה"א, לָא יָכְלָא לָדוּר וּלְמֶהֱוֵי בֵּין עַמָּמִין עוֹבְדֵי כּוֹכָבִים וּמַזָּלוֹת, דְּה"א קַדִּישָׁא חֲתוּכָא מִן שְׁמָא. ה"א אֶלֶף, ה"א עֲדִיפַת בִּקְדוּשָּׁה, א' עֲדִיפַת לְאַתְוָון. כַּד יְתוּבוּן יִשְׂרָאֵל לְאַרְעֲהוֹן, ה"א קַדִּישָׁא דְּהוּא חֲתוּכָא מִן שְׁמָא דְקוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא, תֵּיתוּב בָּזֶה וְיִפּוּק (מיומא דדינא, והא' תקבל) מִנְיָינָא תַּקַנְתָּא.

What does this mean? And the mystery of the matter: at the time when they are not under the wings of the Shekinah, the Aleph of zoth descends, and it is beneath all; and the He of “this is my God and I will glorify Him” ascends. Since the Temple was destroyed, the He cannot dwell or abide among the idolatrous nations, for the holy He is hewn from the Name. He and Aleph: the He is the greater in holiness, the Aleph is the greater among the letters. When Israel return to their land, the holy He, which is hewn from the Name of the Holy One, blessed be He, shall return in bazeh, and from the number a remedy shall issue.

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Zohar — Vocalized Zohar, Israel 2013, via Sefaria

English: rendered from the Aramaic for this app — The Gematria's own rendering program. A rendering of the words, not a commentary; the Zohar is learned with a teacher